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Trump told us over and over he destroyed all of that.
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Trump told us over and over he destroyed all of that.
Iran was in violation of the NPT prior to Trump, it’s why Obama was desperate to try and get something anything to try and show that he was doing something
But we got nothing. Obama couldn’t even get Iran to sign off on anything…just more promises for money and sanctions being lifted
Trump put on maximum pressure, which worked but as soon as the Iranians got their boy xiden in office they waged regional chaos and started enriching uranium back to 60’percent
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Not to mention......
A week before the recent military operation, on Feb. 21, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, was more definitive in describing a time frame for Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Witkoff said in a Fox News interview that while Iran says that its nuclear capability is “about their civil program … they’ve been enriching well beyond the number that you need for civil nuclear. It’s up to 60%. They are probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material, and that’s really dangerous.” But experts told us it would likely take months for Iran to enrich uranium to that level and then much longer before the “bomb-making material” could be made into a weapon.
Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a nonpartisan organization that provides analysis on arms control and national security issues, told us that “it is clear that it would take Iran years to fully rebuild its enrichment plants” that were bombed in June 2025. “It is possible that Iran may have a very small number of operational centrifuges somewhere undisclosed,” Kimball said. “But it would still take months for a smaller number of centrifuges to accomplish what thousands of centrifuges at these major facilities could’ve done,” which would be to enrich small amounts of uranium to weapons-grade level and then turn it into metal to be used for a weapon. “It would take longer to fashion a nuclear explosive device.”
Eliana Johns, a senior research associate with the nuclear information project at the Federation of American Scientists told us that “if Iran enriches uranium to weapons-grade, they will need to weaponize the material and develop a nuclear device with other sensitive components. It’s relatively easy to put various payloads on a missile; however, while Iran certainly has ballistic missiles that could theoretically be used for this purpose, there are still challenges with designing a nuclear device that can be mated with the intended missile, will detonate when desired, survive reentry, and arrive accurately at its target.”
As we’ve reported before, the “breakout time” — a term that refers to the time Iran would need, if it chose to do so, to produce weapons-grade uranium that could then be used for one bomb — had been about a week or so for at least the past few years. However, “‘breakout time’ is often misleading,” Sandifer said. “While the time it may have taken Iran to enrich enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon may have once been a matter of weeks, that is only one piece of the puzzle. After this point, once you have the weapons-grade uranium, Iran would then need to manufacture the rest of the weapon. This process would likely take much longer, perhaps months to a year.”
Assessing Trump's Claims on Iran's Nuclear and Missile Capabilities - FactCheck.org
In discussing his reasoning for launching U.S. airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump said, "An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire threat to every American." But arms control experts have disputed his claim that Iran "soon" could have missiles...
www.factcheck.org
I think the primary reason for Trump's gullible. stupid decision was.............
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Not to mention......
A week before the recent military operation, on Feb. 21, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, was more definitive in describing a time frame for Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Witkoff said in a Fox News interview that while Iran says that its nuclear capability is “about their civil program … they’ve been enriching well beyond the number that you need for civil nuclear. It’s up to 60%. They are probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material, and that’s really dangerous.” But experts told us it would likely take months for Iran to enrich uranium to that level and then much longer before the “bomb-making material” could be made into a weapon.
Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a nonpartisan organization that provides analysis on arms control and national security issues, told us that “it is clear that it would take Iran years to fully rebuild its enrichment plants” that were bombed in June 2025. “It is possible that Iran may have a very small number of operational centrifuges somewhere undisclosed,” Kimball said. “But it would still take months for a smaller number of centrifuges to accomplish what thousands of centrifuges at these major facilities could’ve done,” which would be to enrich small amounts of uranium to weapons-grade level and then turn it into metal to be used for a weapon. “It would take longer to fashion a nuclear explosive device.”
Eliana Johns, a senior research associate with the nuclear information project at the Federation of American Scientists told us that “if Iran enriches uranium to weapons-grade, they will need to weaponize the material and develop a nuclear device with other sensitive components. It’s relatively easy to put various payloads on a missile; however, while Iran certainly has ballistic missiles that could theoretically be used for this purpose, there are still challenges with designing a nuclear device that can be mated with the intended missile, will detonate when desired, survive reentry, and arrive accurately at its target.”
As we’ve reported before, the “breakout time” — a term that refers to the time Iran would need, if it chose to do so, to produce weapons-grade uranium that could then be used for one bomb — had been about a week or so for at least the past few years. However, “‘breakout time’ is often misleading,” Sandifer said. “While the time it may have taken Iran to enrich enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon may have once been a matter of weeks, that is only one piece of the puzzle. After this point, once you have the weapons-grade uranium, Iran would then need to manufacture the rest of the weapon. This process would likely take much longer, perhaps months to a year.”
Assessing Trump's Claims on Iran's Nuclear and Missile Capabilities - FactCheck.org
In discussing his reasoning for launching U.S. airstrikes on Iran, President Donald Trump said, "An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire threat to every American." But arms control experts have disputed his claim that Iran "soon" could have missiles...
The far bigger threat is a middle east fully aligned with Iran which is what we get .
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Thanks to his boss, Netanyahu.
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Again, he has been leading the country by the nose well before Trump and will continue to post Trump as long as he is in power.
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What he has is the ability to prove democrat polices are a failure by doing the opposite and making everything better right after the Biden disaster.
True, but as much as nutandyahoo whined, they didn't give in to his lies.
The US should have cut Israel off decades ago.
THIS is the result of decades of meddling in the Middle East.
Especially Trump.
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Gabbard Says Iran Did Not Rebuild Nuclear Program After 2025 Strikes, Contradicting Trump
Iran did not rebuild its uranium enrichment capability following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against its nuclear program last year, U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday."As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The entrances to the underground facilities that were bombed have been buried and shuttered with cement," Gabard wrote in an opening statement ahead of the hearing.
Tulsi Gabbard Contradicts Trump on Key Claims About Iran War
The U.S. Director of the National Intelligence contradicted one of Trump's key justifications for going to war against Iran.
time.com
Tulsi's days were numbered after she gave that testimony. Not even participating in the charade in SC could save her.
As for Trump’s statement that Iran “attempted to rebuild their nuclear program” after last year’s airstrikes, Kimball and Sandifer said there wasn’t evidence of that. “There is no evidence from the IAEA, from independent analysis of commercial satellite imagery, nor any evidence presented to Congress from the U.S. intelligence Community that Iran was rebuilding the damaged nuclear facilities and preparing to restart enrichment operations,” Kimball said.
Sandifer said that satellite images in January “showed repair activity at two of the Iranian nuclear sites bombed in June of 2025, the Natanz and Isfahan facilities. However, there is a lack of evidence that Iran had taken steps toward rebuilding its nuclear program beyond these repairs. Some experts believe that this activity was not a sign of reconstruction but an assessment of the damage to key assets.”
Other experts similarly have said there’s not evidence of Iran restarting a nuclear enrichment program. “There’s a general conclusion today that there’s a de facto suspension of enrichment,” Robert Einhorn, a senior fellow in the arms control and non-proliferation initiative at the Brookings Institution think tank and a former State Department official during the Obama administration, told the Wall Street Journal. “There’s no enrichment taking place.”
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pknopp
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We sent him billions.....not sure what you see as "not giving in".
If Harris had won, we still likely would have joined him on a war with Iran.
Yes, enough with the excuses. And no "not especially". It's a simple "and Trump".
Gabbard Says Iran Did Not Rebuild Nuclear Program After 2025 Strikes, Contradicting Trump
Iran did not rebuild its uranium enrichment capability following joint U.S.-Israeli strikes against its nuclear program last year, U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday.
"As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The entrances to the underground facilities that were bombed have been buried and shuttered with cement," Gabard wrote in an opening statement ahead of the hearing.
Tulsi Gabbard Contradicts Trump on Key Claims About Iran War
The U.S. Director of the National Intelligence contradicted one of Trump's key justifications for going to war against Iran.
Tulsi's days were numbered after she gave that testimony. Not even participating in the charade in SC could save her.
Tulsi wasn't Bibi.
To his lies about Iran.
I disagree, she would have listened to people who know better.
WHO jumped in head first?
It is the Democratic side that pushed much of this. And leftwing Jews who seem toe on a suicide mission are part of it. All of those agendas you typed perhaps could have been handled differently with a less confrontational outcome.
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They have been attacking US military bases. Bases these countries are going to abandon to get their ships through the straits.
Watch.
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Rats abandoning a sinking ship.....
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So somebody explain to me why it is newsworthy that a majority of Americans want exactly what the President has said he wants, to wit, a negotiated agreement with Iran?
Indeed, he has shown remarkable constraint - constraint that goes so far as to erode the President's popularity among MAGA Republicans - before embarking on further "kinetic actions" against the regime.
Again, a majority of Americans what the same thing that the President wants. Why is that "news"?
Indeed, he has shown remarkable constraint - constraint that goes so far as to erode the President's popularity among MAGA Republicans - before embarking on further "kinetic actions" against the regime.
Again, a majority of Americans what the same thing that the President wants. Why is that "news"?
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